Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Although founded to include flora & fauna of the whole U. S., the Boston Museum today is known as a specialist in New England animals, minerals, flowers. It contains a complete exhibit of old New Bedford and Nantucket whaling days, including whaling implements, ambergris, immense whale skeletons. Many famed people have been interested in adding to its collection. Naturalist-Author Henry David Thoreau (1817-62), who learned to love animals while driving his mother's cow to pasture, gave a warbler and some hawk eggs. Daniel Webster (1782-1852) was interested in the society because he liked hunting and fishing...
...that "You're dead when they stop writing about you," you are unborn until they begin writing about you. So rule No. 5 declares: Get a Press! This is accomplished in several ways. The alter ego must see to it that editors get courteous, efficient service when they exhibit curiosity. Friends of editors may be asked to bring the editors to call, dine, have a drink. Writer friends should be encouraged to undertake character sketches. Greatest of all press handlers for the Messrs. Hoover and Smith were two New York women-Mrs. William Brown Meloney of the New York...
...Hudson River School. Later he went abroad, studied in Paris, traveled and sketched extensively in Europe, Africa, the Levant. Here commenced his interest in decorative arts, particularly glassware, which led to his development of that heavy iridescent substance known as Tiffany Favrile Glass. His first U. S. exhibit, "A Dock Scene, Yonkers," was in the National Academy of 1869. He became (and remains) Vice President and Art Director of Tiffany & Co., jewelers. He is president and founder of Tiffany Furnaces and Tiffany Studios, which have filled many a church, mausoleum, library, with windows artfully simulating oil paintings...
...grow taller than three feet. One of the smallest known, a Chinese variety, is only three inches in height. Dr. Small is afraid his transplanted iris will be stunted by the northern climate, will grow to be only about four feet tall. If they flourish, he plans a public exhibit next spring...
Sisters of the Chorus. Sophisticated Theophile Gautier once said that the only thing one could not exhibit on the stage was a pot de chambre. The chief distinction of Sisters of the Chorus, another theatrical attempt to romanticize the lives of thugs and their lady friends, is that just such a utilitarian object is within full view of about one-half of the audience, the play's humor springing largely from the fact that a bathroom opens on the principal scene. There is a good deal of tedious talk about the nefarious ethics and business conduct indigenous to "Broadway...